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Now this being said, you know what scares me more. 28 Days Later, and 28 Weeks Later zombies. A friend of mine Noah will argue that they are far easier to kill, so he finds them less creepy. He has a point, but then again I've got a few. They are just so damn fierce. They want to hurt you, they are pissed at you. I think its the energeticness (if that is even a word) of their attempts to kill the uninfected (though I still think that logically they should just attack any and everything, and sort themselves out for us, but it doesn't seem to work like that in the flick). They are VERY fast. It was the opening scene in 28 Weeks Later that really did me in. They are inside that house and up the stairs quick as a bunny. Slow moving shamblers I can deal with, I'm fat and out of shape but I damn sure can out manuever rotting flesh. Now adrenaline ampped up living flesh, thats a whole different story. I don't think I'd be able to survive long. Then my final point of fearing these G's more than old fashioned types, is the speed of infection. One drop of blood in your freakin eye, and in like 10 seconds you are a bloodthirsty berserker. At least with a classic style zombie I'll have time to take myself out or something, and not become something like them. Not much chance of that in the 28 movies. So to answeer your question, yes zombies freak me out too. Its kind of a love hate thing. I like the triumph of man over disaster that/planning and readiness of zombie threat(its just fun to imagine strategy for holding out in the retail outlet I work in), but then I'm also very disturbed by that tide of horror too.


And I think something that was even scarier than the fast zombies from 28 days later was the intelligent zombies from Brian Keene's The Rising and City of the Dead. They weren't as fast as the zombies from 28 days later, but they could think, drive, use weapons, plan ambushes, etc. Also, the fact that you didn't have to be bitten or infected to become a zombie (anyone who died of any cause became a zombie) made survival much more difficult.

Ever since I saw that movie, I've been terrified of two things. One, the realization that you are about to die a horrible death. Two, zombies. There are nights where I pull up into my driveway and look in the rearview mirror before I get out, COMPLETELY EXPECTING to see zombies shambling down my driveway behind me. I've walked around the outside of my house before judging which windows or doors would be most breachable in a zombie attack. Because YOU NEVER KNOW.
Being afraid of zombies is completely rational.


Not to say that I wouldn't be frightened of a horde of dead things coming to eat me, but I suspect I would be frightened by a horde of anything coming to eat me...except for bunnies. That would be a cute death.

I'm not what you would call "a runner" or "a fast mover at all in general". It's all about moseying where I'm from. But I'm telling you what, if I saw a zombie, I'd turn into FloJo in a heartbeat.
I also have this fear that when I'm driving by large pastures at night, that unbeknownst to me, there is this werewolf hoofing it to my car, and any minute he's going to jump on the roof and peel it back like a can of vienna sausages.

The only BENEFIT to the fast, scary zombies from _28 Days Later_ is they starve to death faster than the eternally nondecomposing shamblers.

Oh, nice reference Cookie.
A pimp of zombies.
Because zombies are BIG PIMPIN'.
Because zombies are BIG PIMPIN'.

Or maybe midgets.
Fast Zombies are the SCARIEST THING EVER!!! 28 Days Later made me curl up in a fetal position and rock back and forth like an autistic person. But could I stop watching it? NO! I had to see how it ended so there wouldn't be fast zombies chasing me for the rest of my natural (or unnatural) life. Of course, it didn't help that then I went to go see 28 Weeks Later where they come back and it ends with them invading Paris through the Tube. Dude... I'm still certain Paris is crawling with Zombies.
Cookie: 100 points for "vienna sausages"
Brendan: 1000 points for "a pimp of zombies"
My daughter insists it's obviously a horde of zombies, duh, mom. But I agree with Natalie: plague of zombies seems most appropo.
I don't mind dead things that talk to me. As long as they aren't telling me to kill little children.

I get creeped out by the grotesqueness in some films. Especially the scene in Night of the Living Dead where the zombies are eating the two teenagers and they're just like digging in and loving every second. Ugh. Turns my stomach. And Shaun of the Dead where they pull that guy's entrails out. Super yuck.

I think a plague of zombies sounds good, but I'm gonna have to go with my roots, and just say "There's a whole mess of 'em."
I am also way more afraid of fast-movers. Because they're so fast! And I am not! The slow-movers, though, those are like eventual death, just looming. They still get the creep factor. I have this whole theory about the new generation and how everything has to be NOW NOW NOW, even the horrific death at the hand of zombies you're about to experience.

I'm all grown up now, okay? And I've spent nights alone in the wilderness with only a tarp, a swiss army knife, and a hiking boot to defend myself from bears, lightning, and wolverines (okay, so there are no wolverines left in the Sierra's, but you get the point). Why on earth do Zombies still scare the living daylights out of me??
Does anyone else in this community share this deeply primal, irrational fear of Zombies?